SCIENCE FICTION · THRILLER
The Last Signal
Thirty years after Earth went silent, something is transmitting back — in a human voice, on a frequency abandoned decades ago.
The story
A mystery at the speed of light
When deep-space listener Mara Okafor intercepts a transmission that shouldn’t exist, she becomes the only person alive who can decode it — humanity’s final message, or its first warning.
Racing a corporate fleet that wants the signal buried forever, Mara must decide how far she’ll go to hear the truth from the dark. As the decryption deepens, so does the cost: every answer opens a darker question, and the voice on the other end knows her name.
The Last Signal is a propulsive, deeply human thriller about the small choices that echo across light-years — and the courage it takes to finally answer.
FROM CHAPTER ONE
“The sky had been quiet for thirty years. So when the console lit up at 3:47 a.m. — one clean pulse, then another — Mara didn’t call it in. She just listened. And somewhere in that listening, she understood: it wasn’t noise. It was a voice. And it was saying her name.”